Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-08-04
NOTES

Janitors' services are utilized in
many buildings in the making of
blocks, inexpensive tables, shelves,
boxes, and other aids to the teacher.
One suburban town famiiarizes its
school children with the anatomy of
the human body through the use Of
bones from the village doctors office.
A method that succeeds should be
carefully studied, IA it may have seri-
GUS defects. A man may succeed in
money-getting by ways that are wrong;
a woman may attain great social sue
cess by methods that are not noble; n
teacher may attain great popularity,
may win great Success ii apparent re-
suits, by methods that are mentally
vicious. The best success comes by
the best methods, and the best methods
bring the best success.
In the Allegheny schools the teach
ers in the two lower primary classes
have all the colors and hucs, with sew
eraI tints aud shades on the blackboard
in reetangles, with crayons, as a per-
petual object lesson in color The
blocks for object work in numbers are
also inch tubes pointed in all the cOlors
hues, etc. The tables for object and
number work have the surface divided
into square inches, the square feet also
being lined of peculiarly
MANY man might reduce his work
by a third, and the worry of it by q
half, by putting little more system
into it. THE Christian Union.
Projection maps of each of the grand
divisions are now considered essential
in many schools. Each class need not
have u full set. but each class may
have before it the map Of the grand
division that it is studying at the time.
In nearly every American city now.
certainly in all that pride themselves
on having modern advantages, there is
ut least Que year in every child's life
in which every child in the room has
a globe Of his own throughout the year.
Departmental work has quietly in
uoluced itself into the upper classes
in many of the schools of most of the
large cities of the West The uniyer-
sal verdict. SO far ~ we can learn, is
that there is gain when one teacher
takes the work in arithmetic, gcogra-
ply, or language in two or three rooms,
especially where there are two rooms
of the same grade.
The teachers who inspire and train
pupils to philosophical in history study
succeed i'm acknowledgements interest,
irving character TO habits of thought,
and many advantages of debate under
their direction We have observed
this especially IN the Bowdoin School.
Boston. i'm which this element is util-
lied effectively. We have never seen
the equal of bit of philosophy about
the relation of the Indians and the
whites in the Indian War 1t was pc
culiarly valuable in that the pupils did
not take sides, or try especially to ar
quo for either Indians or whites. but
each pupil seemed to try to see what
merit or dcmerit there was in the POI
sitiou of each
In this same connection we call at
tonton To something we saw in this
school whom the subject of the late war
was up and a colored girl spoke with
much enthusiasm of some of the battle
fields she had seen in Virginia, and
some experiences of her father, who
was slave at the time the war broke
out While she did not state the latter
fact. she assumed that it was under
stood. and the interest of the class In
her descriptions of the streets, fields.
and building, WINS very elective
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